1 She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 2 The foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report to the Directory on Aboukir, said: Such a one of our balls killed six men.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 3 "A merry humor was at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 4 It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 5 These advanced opinions had a double foundation.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 6 This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the ordinances of July.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT 7 It should be added, that the foundation of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date when this paper was found.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 8 In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and of destiny.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 9 Long damask curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the bed, hung at the windows of the first floor.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 10 There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 11 To paint with words, which contains figures one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human languages, what may be called their granite.
12 He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes which are in the shape of a pistol.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 13 They generally succeed the bad ones, as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which superficial minds call antithesis.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 14 Between the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 15 No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS